Saturday, 19 January 2013

Reality Shifts: What Happens to Those Who Slip Between the Cracks of Time and Space?

Reality Shifts:

What
Happens to Those Who Slip Between the Cracks of Time and Space?

By P.M.H. Atwater,
L.H.D.—

Perception
determines “truth.” We invent our own reality through our own perceptions and
others’, and by accepting what appears to be real as real. History is filled
with stories of people who, in “slipping between the cracks” of their own
consciousness (thus altering how they perceived the world around them)
uncovered different ways to experience reality. What they accomplished in doing
this made an impact on society. You and I, all of us, have profited again and
again because this happened.

Chester F.
Carlson, for example, inventor of the Xerox duplication process and founder of
the Xerox Corporation, was a devotee of a certain trance medium who channelled
spirit beings. While attending a series of sessions with the woman, he
eventually “received” the photocopy process from the spirit beings she
contacted. After experimenting with the technique and making a few adjustments,
the Xerox process was born, along with a multi-billion-dollar company.

George
Washington Carver took the peanut, until then used as hog food, and the exotic
and neglected sweet potato, and turned them into hundreds of products,
including cosmetics, grease, printer’s ink, coffee, and peanut butter. Carver
said he got his answers by walking in the woods at four in the morning. “Nature
is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep,” he
said. “In the still hours before sunrise, God tells me of the plans I am to
fulfill.” How did George Washington Carver communicate with God during the wee
hours of morning? He said it himself – through the assistance of angels and
fairies. And he isn’t the only one to make such a claim.

Peter and
Eileen Caddy and their colleague Dorothy Maclean give the same credits in describing
the work they accomplished. This troupe, along with Caddy’s three sons, took up
residence near an inlet to the North Sea at Findhorn, Scotland, for the purpose
of setting up a co-creative link between themselves and nature intelligences –
that is to say, angels (what they later called “devas”) and fairies (“nature
spirits”). They became willing workers with nature’s own in an attempt to
co-create a garden the likes of which would defy every known rule of convention
and climate.

That was 1962.
Today, the Findhorn Gardens regularly draw people from across the globe to tour
the premises and take classes at Cluny Hill College, classes on how to
communicate with angelic forces and helper spirits while at the same time
enhancing one’s own sense of spirituality.

The people I
have mentioned came to perceive reality from a vantage point other than the
norm; then they used what they gained from that experience to benefit others.
Different ways of experiencing reality happen when individuals expand their
consciousness. Whether accidental or on purpose, that shift in perception also
alters the meaning and the importance of time and space.

Native Runners Expand Reality

Documented
cases of native runners, especially those in North and South America,
illustrate this. In Peter Nabokov’s book Indian
Running, an anthropologist by the name of George Laird described
what happened to one runner who lived in the southwestern part of the United
States:

“One morning
he left his friends at Cotton Wood Island in Nevada and said he was going to
the mouth of the Gila River in southern Arizona. He didn’t want anyone else
along, but when he was out of sight, the others began tracking him. Beyond the
nearby dunes his stride changed. The tracks looked as if he had just been
staggering along, taking giant steps, his feet touching the ground at long
irregular intervals, leaving prints that became further and further apart and
lighter and lighter in the sand. When they got to Fort Yuma they learned that
he had arrived at sunrise of the same day he had left them,” thus arriving
before he departed. The runner’s altered perception enabled him to accomplish
this feat; he did not allow himself to be bound by normal perceptions of time
and space.

Let’s not
forget the Australian aborigines. Theirs is the oldest continually existing
culture on Earth (around for at least 50,000 years), and they maintain an
understanding of time and space – of reality – that deserves our attention.

What they call
“dreaming” has little to do with sleep or dreams which occur during sleep.
Dreaming for them is actually more akin to a type of “flow” where one becomes
whatever is focused on and suddenly knows whatever needs to be known at the
moment. Aborigines sometimes use drugs to achieve this state but, more often than
not, drumming, chanting, rhythmic movements, and certain other sounds and
rituals suffice. In this state of consciousness participants seem to “merge
with” or “enter into” soil, rocks, animals, sky, or whatever else they focus on
– including the “Inbetween” (what appears to exist between time and space, as
if through a crack in creation).

These people
believe reality consists of two space/time continua, not one – that which can
be experienced during wake time and that during dream time, with dream time slightly
ahead of its counterpart, yet capable of merging into all time, of what
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder calls “everywhen.”

To Australian
aborigines, wake time is where learning is acted out and utilised, but dream
time is where learning is first acquired. For them, dream time is the place
where all possibilities and all memory reside. Stories are told of aborigines
who physically appear and disappear as they slip back and forth from one
continuum to the other, from the here and now to the alternate universes they
believe exist and the everywhen they know awaits them. Wise ones, be they monks
or shamans or healers or mystics, are like this. They know life extends beyond
the boundaries of perception. Yet perception itself can be flawed.

Yes, it is a
fact that individuals and societies have always organised the cosmos to fit
their own preferred beliefs. This is what defines the relationship between
heresy (independent thinking) and orthodoxy (mutually accepted bias). But it is
also a fact that the bizarre can intrude upon one’s life so dramatically that
one is forced to shift one’s awareness of real versus unreal.

Fiction Can Foretell Reality

Reality shifts
(sometimes called coincidences) take on many guises. Fiction, for example, sometimes
foretells reality. Were the authors of prophetic works inspired by altered
perceptions of reality?

The popular
movie China Syndrome,
starring Jane Fonda, depicted a nuclear facility meltdown. Three weeks after
the movie opened, the same kind of disaster actually happened at Three Mile
Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

The 1961 novel
Strangers in a Strange Land,
written by Robert A. Heinlein, told the story of a global chief executive who
made decisions based on his wife’s advice, advice she obtained from regular
consultations with a San Francisco astrologer. In 1988, media headlines carried
the story that Nancy Reagan frequently consulted a San Francisco astrologer,
and that the advice she passed along to her husband Ronald Reagan, then
President of the United States, was based on those consultations.

The novel Futility, an 1898 creation of Morgan
Robertson, detailed the sinking of an unsinkable ship, the largest vessel
afloat. This imaginary ship, named Titan, collided with an iceberg during
April, resulting in a high loss of life because the ship carried too few
lifeboats. Fourteen years later, with uncanny similarities, the real ship
Titanic re-created what happened in the novel: The two ships had almost
identical names; both ships were designated unsinkable; both were touted as the
largest ships at sea; both collided with icebergs in April; both resulted in
many deaths due to a shortage of lifeboats. Plus, both had strikingly similar
floor plans and technical descriptions.

Radio
broadcaster Paul Harvey aired a grim tale of three shipwrecked sailors and one
cabin boy, adrift and facing starvation, who drew lots to see who would forfeit
his life so the others could survive. The contest was rigged to make certain
the cabin boy, Richard Parker, would lose. Evidence used at the subsequent
court trial that convicted all three of murder and cannibalism included a story
written by Edgar Allen Poe. Titled ‘The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of
Nantucket’, Poe’s tale described three shipwrecked sailors who rigged a drawing
of lots, then killed and ate their cabin boy companion, Richard Parker. Poe’s
story, which so accurately described the drama, every detail as it actually
happened – including the victim’s correct name – was written and published 46
years before the event happened, even before the participants were born.

The
astonishing ability of fiction to accurately foreshadow what physically occurs
happens more often than you might think. It’s almost as if on some level,
knowingly or unknowingly, consistently or occasionally, individuals can tap
into or stumble across other dimensions of reality, as well as knowledge of a
predestined or potential future.

Remarkable
reality shifts also occur that cannot be correlated with any sort of
imaginings:

Brad Steiger,
in his book The Reality Game and How to
Win It, tells about Charles W. Ingersoll of Cloquet, Minnesota, who
appeared in a travelogue made and copyrighted by Castle Films in 1948.
Ingersoll could be seen leaning over the rim of the Grand Canyon taking
pictures with his 35mm camera. Yet Ingersoll did not go to the Grand Canyon in
1948. He had planned to do so, but his plans changed and his first trip there
was made in 1955, when he took with him a newly purchased camera manufactured
the same year of his trip. A week after his return, he chanced upon the old
travelogue in a store and bought it, discovering to his utter amazement that
the film clearly showed him there in 1948 – holding a camera that did not exist
until 1955. An investigation verified the incident and the dates, but no
explanation was ever offered as to how Ingersoll could have appeared in a film
showing him at a site seven years before he got there.

On October 21,
1987, Claude and Ellen Thorlin were sitting at breakfast. Ellen heard a
disembodied voice ask her to tune in Channel 4 on their television set. Even
though that channel did not receive broadcast transmissions in their area,
Ellen turned the set on. There she saw the face of their dear friend and
colleague, Friedrich Jergenson, a well-known Swedish documentary filmmaker and
the father of EVP (electronic voice communication with spirits). Ellen was
shocked; Claude snapped a photo that recorded the image and the time – 1:22
p.m. That time was 22 minutes into Jergenson’s funeral service that was occurring
420 miles away, a funeral service the Thorlins had been unable to attend.

When T.L. of
Fort Worth, Texas, was 21 years old, he borrowed his parents’ car for a drive
from Darby, Montana, to Missoula, to visit friends. Staying later than
expected, he found himself speeding back to Darby between one and two in the
morning. At a place where the road wound around hills paralleling the river
channel, the car headlights suddenly picked up a herd of 20 to 30 horses
sauntering across the highway. With no time to hit his brakes and no place to
pull off the road, TL hoped to avoid a collision by driving between the
animals. Two large horses stopped directly in front of his path. The inevitable
seemed his fate until, in the flash of an instant, TL found himself well beyond
the herd, driving as if nothing unusual had happened. To this day he cannot
explain how he missed hitting the horses. “It was as if I and my car were
‘transported’ to the other side of the herd,” he said.

Each of these
“coincidences” involved people as real as you and me, on days that began as
ordinary days.

Changing Our Awareness

Are these
events merely coincidences? Too much evidence from too many sources contradicts this
idea. Something else is going on here.

The events
described in this article underscored moments when subjective reality overlaid
objective reality to determine experience. And when that happened, the future
easily surfaced. This peculiarity occurred automatically, without provocation,
and regardless of logic. What we call time – past, present, future – ceased to
be sequential for these people and took on the aspect of simultaneity.

All of the
cases – whether involving aboriginal or present-day societies, fictional or
nonfictional themes – centred on men and women who encountered alternate
versions of time and space. What occurred changed their perception of the
world.

Adapted from Future Memory: How Those Who See the Future Shed
New Light on the Working of the Human Mind By P.M.H. Atwater (Birch
Lane Press, New York, 1996).

PMH ATWATER, L.H.D., is one of the
original researchers in the field of near-death studies, having begun her work
in 1978. She has published numerous books on her findings. Atwater also
conducted the first major study of the so-called Indigo children, published as Beyond the Indigo Children in 2005. On
divination, she authored three books on Goddess Runes. For a complete
biographical listing and information on how to obtain her books, DVDs and
lectures, please visit her website www.pmhatwater.com.

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